After I changed my daughter's diaper in the baby center on Main Street, I asked if they had a bottle warmer. (I heard they did, though I'm not sure how one works. I assume it warms water that you put the bottle in.)

The woman who worked there said, "We have a microwave."
I've heard
1. that microwaves kill nutrients in milk (True? Has this been proven?),
and
2. that microwave ovens shouldn't be used to heat milk for babies because they can make the milk too hot (duh), but I wonder if that is just a warning to prevent careless people from burning their baby's mouths. (I wouldn't heat it for very long.)

So instead I asked about a bottle warmer and she said something to the effect of, "I could get it out." She said this in such a way that told me, "You are a pain in the a-- if you make me get it out." So I passed. At least that's time impression I got.
So my main questions are. . .

Have any of you ever used a bottle-warming machine (not the microwave)
at the Baby Center in either Disneyland or DCA?
If so, does it work so well that it's worth asking for if my daughter prefer her milk warm?

The woman who worked there said, "We have a microwave."
I've heard
1. that microwaves kill nutrients in milk (True? Has this been proven?),
and
2. that microwave ovens shouldn't be used to heat milk for babies because they can make the milk too hot (duh), but I wonder if that is just a warning to prevent careless people from burning their baby's mouths. (I wouldn't heat it for very long.)I don't think a microwave would affect the nutritional value, because you would not be boiling the milk. It could create hot spots, that could burn the baby's mouth. If you use a microwave, I would heat the bottle in very short spurts, and stir the milk each time, to dispurse the heat. Better to heat it by putting the bottle in a pot of hot water or using a bottle warmer, and stiring the milk.

Microwaving can kill the live cells in human breast milk, but if you are talking about formula, that's already been sterilized so there's nothing to kill.

With my kid who would take bottles I persuaded her very early on that cool milk was good milk and stopped heating them.

My daughter will only drink warm milk. I was just there today and heated her bottle with hot water from one of the food places. If they serve Hot Chocolate or Coffee.. they have hot water. We ask for a small hot water in a large cup. Took about 5 minutes for 8 oz.

I never used the microwave to heat breastmilk Now that we have stopped nursing I have used it one maybe 5 times in 6 months.

I have used the microwave in DCA. I think I did 15 seconds. Maybe 20. I made sure to shake it really well to avoid the hot spots.

Usually I find the women in the Baby Center lovely. However there have been a few that have left me a little cold.

Vicki

You are a smart woman. I did start my daughter on room temp veggies. I never wanted to HAVE to heat it.

I wish I had done that with the bottle. :)

We nursed for 10.5 months. I never realized how good I had it till I started horsing around with formula ( wow that stuff is $$$), heating bottles, finding organic 2% milk.

A bottle warmer is sort of like a coffee pot in a way, but you put your bottle in this little cup holder looking thing and then put water in around it and a hot plate on the bottom warms up the water which in turn warms up the milk. It takes usually 3 minutes or so to warm it up. I'm not sure why she acted like it was an effort, it is a pretty small thing usually. At least the one I had was, but then I gave my daughter cold milk from birth and never used it either, execpt once out of curiosity.